Petri Dishes Quotes & Sayings

I'm 45 and I don't have time to spend two years of my life bringing in producers and dragging the record around the planet. — Mark Kozelek

I am glad some people keep petri dishes. It is the only culture they have. — McAfee

Pain pays the income of each precious thing. — William Shakespeare

Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh. — Mike Pence

Never a cell biologist at heart, as a colleague recalled, he contaminated the cells, infected the cultures, and grew out balls of fungi in the petri dishes. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

[Computer science] is not really about computers and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes ... and geometry isn't really about using surveying instruments. — Hal Abelson

The only things that are immortal in this world are government programs and cancer cells in petri dishes. — Jim Babka

Brush teeth. Wash hair. Rule undead world with an iron fist. — Jeaniene Frost

I would like to make sleeping my new hobby, except that I'm too tired, really, to have a hobby. But a girl can always dream. — Susan Orlean

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright. — Mario Puzo

I am not a normal man. — Stevie Wonder

kisses explode
when...
someone
believes in me

when my heart cries out
a song of thanks
to yours. — Sanober Khan

My wakeup call wasn't some light switch of empowerment. From as early as preschool I feared that if I didn't grow up to be the pretty princess men fawned over, I was a failure. That mentality was my disease. It got me raped. It made me feel dirty and devalued because my cherry wasn't popped on a bed of rose petals. It fueled an adolescence juggling starvation and vomiting until my throat bled out and my stomach acid burned through the plumbing. It made me snort coke, smoke meth, and routinely gulp down narcotic petri dishes in hopes of obtaining hallucinogenic intimacy with junkie boyfriends. But most of all, it made me waste my youth chasing, obsessing over, fighting for, worshipping, clinging to, and crying over one after another loser. At some point, I just quit giving a fuck. — Maggie Young

This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was. — W.G. Sebald